One day when I hadn’t yet started working on The Age of the Horse, I was at a National Trust property in England, vaguely on the trail of a woman who fascinated me and whose story I had researched but was unsure how to tell. I was trying to find a work-around for the limitations …
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Inventing the Wild Horse: the Manmade History of the Takhi and Tarpan from 3500BCE–1828
I’ve just published a chapter called “Inventing the Wild Horse: the Manmade History of the Takhi and Tarpan from 1828–2018” in Horse Breeds and Human Society: Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse, edited by Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld (Routledge, 2020). I went overboard writing this and outstripped my word count so …
Takhi Games
I filmed these Przewalski horses making the most of the long winter we had from 2009 to 2010 in West Berlin Zoo, bucking and farting with a vengeance. Hopefully they will get a chance to transfer out of that tiny field and to the new nature reserve outside the city at Doebritzer-Heide.